Patch 8.1 makes an interesting change to World of Tanks: The so-called "gold ammo" will be made available for credits, the currency that can be earned without paying money for it. Gold ammo, while never in widespread use, was the one item some people claimed made World of Tanks a "pay to win" game. But as many other examples show, people consider "pay to win" only to be the case if something can *only* be bought with cash.

The only thing remaining available for cash are certain premium tanks. And those are actually worse than tanks of the same level that have been earned by playing. So in the future World of Tanks will have no "pay to win" elements left at all.